Mihai-Silviu Chirila

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  Mihai-Silviu Chirila is interested in international relations and foreign policies, topics about which he is writing on our site. He is 37 years old, has a degree in theology and is a freelancing translator and editor.

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Greek Riot Police Disperse Demonstration at the Acropolis

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 14th 2010 | no comments

Riot police used tear gas against hundreds of Greek employees of the Culture Ministry who blockaded the site of the 2,500-year-old historical site of Acropolis for a second straight day. Some 200 workers went on strike on Wednesday demanding that the government review the layoff policy, pay the back wages and provide them the permanent status. They claim that hundreds of their [...]

Qatar Airways Captain Dies During Flight

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 14th 2010 | no comments

A captain of Quatar Airways Airbus A330-300, flight QR645, from Manila Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Philippines to Doha Airport in Quatar, died of heart attack during the flight on Wednesday morning. The copilot took command of the plane and diverted the flight to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, where the plane landed at 11:30 local time. The paramedics were unable [...]

10-Year-Old Zahra Clare Baker Still Missing

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 14th 2010 | no comments

Australia has been shook up by the disappearance of little Zahra Clare Baker, a ten years girl from the large Australian state of Queensland. Townsville Bulletin, a newspaper published in the town of Giru, the former residence of Zahra, is quoting the girl’s mother who told the press about how she spent time with Zahra as she grew up in Giru. “She was the most determined girl,” [...]

Ahmadinejad Expected to Arrive to Southern Lebanon

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 14th 2010 | no comments

On the second day of his first official visit to Lebanon,  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected to travel south and deliver a speech in the villages in south Lebanon, the stronghold of the Lebanese-based Islamic Hezbollah, a powerful party which is very much followed by the Shia Lebanese Muslims in the region. Ahmadinejad is expected to deliver his speech today in Bint Jbeil – [...]

Why Is The “North American Union” Being Kept Away From the Public Eye?

Posted in: Editorials, Featured by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 13th 2010 | 4 comments

The states of the world are coming together in superstate structures that will probably replace in time them, which will make it easier to travel or to do business. It is thought that in time these structures will unite in their turn into a unique structure similar to the United Nations, or maybe will even turn the U.N. into this superstate. Some say it is good, some say it is bad. [...]

Hurricane Paula Is Approaching Yukatan

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 13th 2010 | no comments

Honduras emergency officials urged coastal residents to evacuate low-lying areas and Mexico is preparing for possible hurricane strike on Tuesday as Paula strengthened and blew over the Carribean coasts with strong winds and rain. Paula formed on Monday off the coast of Honduras and quickly intensified into a hurricane on Tuesday according to the National Hurricane Center in [...]

Linda Norgrove Was Killed By a Grenade Tossed By Seal Team Soldier

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 13th 2010 | no comments

The Guardian sources report that Linda Norgrove had managed to escape her captors but was killed by her rescuers who detonated grenades without seeing her. As a UK-USA investigation gets under way over the circumstances of Linda Norgrove’s death, startling details surface. According to The Guardian, the U.S. special forces soldier who accidentally killed Norgrove is due to face [...]

PLO Demands Map of the Future Palestinian State

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 13th 2010 | no comments

Palestinian Liberation Organization is asking the United States to produce a map of the future confines of the state of Israel to the end of seeing if the settlements the Jewish state is building in the Palestinian territories or the Palestinian houses and territories fall within the borders of the Israel when the frontiers are established between the two states. PLO official Yasser [...]

Dissident Suu Kyi Refuses to Vote in the General Elections in Myanmar

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 13th 2010 | no comments

Myanmar detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi announced she will refuse to vote in the general elections on November 7. Her lawyer, Nyan Win said that although her name was on the list she will not participate in the elections organized by the military. In the elections in 1900 Suu Kyi’s party won an outstanding victory but the junta annulled the results and continued [...]

High Court Rules in Favor of Completing Takeover of Liverpool F.C.

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 13th 2010 | no comments

New England Sports Ventures are very close to completing their takeover of the football team Liverpool F.C. as the High Court ruled a mandatory injunction against George Gillett and Tom Hicks. The judge ruled in favor of the clubs English directors Martin Broughton, Ian Ayre and Christian Purslow and the Royal Bank of Scotland in their debate with the current owners who are trying to [...]

Ahmadinejad Arrives in Beirut

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 13th 2010 | no comments

An explosion at a Revolutionary Guards in Iran killed 18 people and injured 14 as a ammunition store blasted in north-western Lorestan province in Iran. The injured people were taking to Koramabad, 300 km southwest of Tehran. Revolutionary Guards are a military elite established in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution in 1979 with the purpose of defending the Islamic system of [...]

Chilean Miners Finally Rescued After 69 Days

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 13th 2010 | no comments

After 69 days of endurance under the ground, the Chilean miners that had been trapped in the desert mine in San Jose were finally rescued by a team that used missile-like a rescuing capsule. Early this morning the rescuers began pulling the 33 men one by one to the surface to air and freedom, where they were received by their loved ones and the population of the Latin American state [...]

India Received Massive Vote For U.N. Security Council

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 13th 2010 | no comments

India has received the highest number of votes to be received as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. According to Hardeep Singh Puri, Indian envoy to the U.N., India received 187 votes out of 190, which is the most evident endorsement a country has received for the past five years. India is a founding member of the United Nations and is returning as [...]

Lebanon Ready to Receive Ahmadinejad

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 13th 2010 | no comments

Lebanon awaits the visit of the President of Iran with the highway from the airport to the centre of Beirut decorated with Iranian flags and posters that welcome the arrival of the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Iranian leader was invited by the Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, but the meeting with Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, is far more important for the leader [...]

France Is Protesting Against Pension Reform

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 12th 2010 | no comments

French workers are blocking today the country in an attempt to convince President’s Sarkozy government to renounce the raise of retirement age by two years in order to save money. The strike affects airports, transportation, schools and postal service. Refinery workers are also protesting, warning of looming gasoline shortage. The battle over the retirement age for pensions has [...]

Hungarians Make Ready To Contain Second Sludge Wave

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 12th 2010 | no comments

The workers in Hungary are still trying to finish building three emergency dams in order to stem an unexpected second spill of sludge from the aluminium plant. The plant’s reservoir contains 500,000 cubic meters of toxic red sludge, and the walls of it already display signs of rupture and cracks, according to Gyorgi Tottos, spokesman for emergency situation in Hungary. It is [...]

Tragic Traffic Accident in Ukraine

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 12th 2010 | no comments

In Ukraine, 40 people have been killed and 10 seriously hurt in a collision between a train and a small bus in the eastern part of the country, according to authorities. The incident happened near the town of Marhanets, south of the main regional city of Dnipropetrovsk. The inter-city bus attempted to cross the track ignoring the warning referring to an approaching train. Some of [...]

Avigdor Lieberman Creates a Diplomatic Incident

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 11th 2010 | no comments

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman created a diplomatic incident and was criticized by the European countries for “violating every rule of diplomatic etiquette.” Lieberman is reported to have leaked to the press the content of his discussions on Sunday with France’s Bernard Koushner and Spain’s Miguel Angel Moratinos. On that occasion Lieberman told the European [...]